The fact that JPII did not use a mac, only serves to elevate his status- and sends a message to those that have strayed.
sigmund, carl and alfred | Homepage | 04.02.06 - 12:14 pm | #

I still ache for him.
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Fr. Stephanos, O.S.B. | Homepage | 04.02.06 - 12:23 pm | #

Oh Siggy, I never strayed ... because I was not ever taken in by the lies of the broad and easy road. :-D
Julie D. | Homepage | 04.02.06 - 1:14 pm | #

Hi Julie:

Please check out my series on John Paul ll too. Here's the first post in the series.

http://acatholiclife.blogspot.co...l-lives- on.html
Moneybags | Homepage | 04.02.06 - 1:36 pm | #

I have kept the TV off today, oddly as a year ago I was glued to it. It guess I have returned to my habit of seldom watching TV but I am so glad for your link to Dom Bettinelli's vidoe tribute. I am sending that link around and that is something I seldom do.
Owen | Homepage | 04.02.06 - 2:00 pm | #

Julie: If you look in the April 2005 archives of my blog, you'll find several tributes to this pope, written and posted by myself. Please feel free to use them here in whatever way you wish. I'd feel honored to see them here, just as I intended to honor John Paul by writing and posting them. (I was in Utah then, and it was sad news for me, too.)
Garry Wilmore | Homepage | 04.03.06 - 1:07 am | #

JP II was too dogmatic and conservative for my taste. I disliked his strict attitudes towards contraception, marriage in the priesthood, and the role of women in the Church. There was a lot I found to criticize in him.

And yet, when he died, I was hurt. Really hurt, like I was hurt by the death of no major figure since Sister Theresa. Only when he died did I take full stock in the strength of his convictions. Even though I do not agree with everything he said, he was such a rare person in modern life -- someone who only spoke from conviction, not from a sense of what people wanted to hear.
mchebert | Homepage | 04.03.06 - 11:57 pm | #

mchebert - I think that is partially what led to such an amazing amount of attention when he died. There is much to admire in one who does not wiggle around but stands their ground.
Julie D. | Homepage | 04.04.06 - 7:38 am | #

Julie, They were beautiful tributes, thank you. I just discovered your blog. I'll be back!
Patrick | Homepage | 04.07.06 - 10:28 pm | #